Marching Soldier
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: price clipped dj.
From one of the twentieth century's most distinctive literary voices comes Marching Soldier, a long poem by Joyce Cary that captures the spirit, confusion, and stubborn humanity of men at war. Written against the backdrop of the Second World War, the work presents the ordinary soldier not as a heroic abstraction but as a living, breathing individual caught in the grinding machinery of conflict — a man who marches forward even when the cause seems lost and the world has gone to ruin. Cary, best known for his celebrated prose trilogies, brings to this poetic work the same psychological acuity and moral seriousness that defined his fiction. Marching Soldier argues for the enduring dignity of the common man, illustrating how duty, loyalty, and an almost irrational optimism sustain the human spirit in the face of annihilation. Spare yet emotionally resonant, the poem stands as a testament to Cary's remarkable range as a writer — and as a haunting reminder that the soldier's march, through history and heartbreak, never truly ends.
Author: Joyce Cary
Format: Hardback
Published: 1945, Michael Joseph Limited
Genre: Poetry
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: price clipped dj.
From one of the twentieth century's most distinctive literary voices comes Marching Soldier, a long poem by Joyce Cary that captures the spirit, confusion, and stubborn humanity of men at war. Written against the backdrop of the Second World War, the work presents the ordinary soldier not as a heroic abstraction but as a living, breathing individual caught in the grinding machinery of conflict — a man who marches forward even when the cause seems lost and the world has gone to ruin. Cary, best known for his celebrated prose trilogies, brings to this poetic work the same psychological acuity and moral seriousness that defined his fiction. Marching Soldier argues for the enduring dignity of the common man, illustrating how duty, loyalty, and an almost irrational optimism sustain the human spirit in the face of annihilation. Spare yet emotionally resonant, the poem stands as a testament to Cary's remarkable range as a writer — and as a haunting reminder that the soldier's march, through history and heartbreak, never truly ends.